Somewhere deep within what remained of the Infinity Academy building,
darkness dominated a large volume of space. Mistress Nine and Professor
Tomoe stood in front of a complex array of machines. Behind this low wall
of machines, a transparent dome containing small galaxies and nebulas could
be seen. A glass cylinder stood amongst the complex devices.

"It is all ready now," Tomoe spoke softly to the Messiah of Darkness beside
him. "Now we need only to put the chalice into this device with your hand,
then the light of darkness will illuminate the Tau star system. That
illumination is needed to show the way to our great Master, Pharaoh Ninety.
And when Pharaoh Ninety appears in this space, all will be destroyed, and
the Earth will fall into Silence. The era ruled by the light of lies will
end, and the era for the darkness of truth will begin."

Standing near the base of the enemy, Usagi and her four trusted
friends looked at the remains of the Infinity Academy tower. With a
strong sense of determination, the five transformed into Sailor
Soldiers.

A lone helicopter flew towards the Infinity Academy. In the helicopter
were Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

"We have no time. We have to destroy the Messiah of Silence before she
fully revives," Uranus said to Neptune while piloting the flying
machine. "In the end, there is no Messiah for us. We'll have to save
this world with our hands, no matter what sacrifices we have to make."

Pluto, in the back seat, sat in silence thinking about Usagi's words that
she will not let anyone be sacrificed.

As Sailormoon and the other four Soldiers dashed towards the building,
Mistress Nine sensed their arrival.

"The chalice is coming near."

"The chalice?" Tomoe was surprised.

"It is coming to us on its own, without us looking for it."

"That is very convenient for us."

"But we cannot allow other intruders to enter until I have fully
revived."

The Messiah of Silence closed her eyes and used her powers of darkness.

As the five Soldiers were running, Mars sensed the Dark Messiah's power.

"What's wrong?" The other four looked at Mars.

"I just felt this presence...faint, but disturbing."

A dome-shaped barrier formed around the remainder of the school tower,
leaving an opening on the top in the shape of a star. From deep inside the
building, thousands of Daimon eggs began pouring out. With no vessels,
the eggs burst, becoming a thick red liquid flowing out onto the floor from
the broken shells. Thousands of humanoid monsters rose from the liquid.

"Incredible levels of dark energy," Mercury said as she examined the
barrier with her visor and pocket computer. "The only way to get through is
to teleport."

As they were going to set up for the teleport, Mercury's visor beeped
rapidly, warning of imminent danger. The five looked at the building, and
saw the red liquid slowly flowing out of every opening in the building.
Hundreds of human-shaped Daimons rose from the liquid and flew, drawing
long, red arcs across the sky.

"Here they come!" Mercury warned.

Daimons fell like rain and splashed on the ground, but quickly rose and
re-formed. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus used their power
attacks to destroy the enemies, but the sheer number of enemies made it
feel like there was no end to them.

"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!" Sailormoon used her attack and wiped out all
the Daimons in the area. But a another wave of Daimons immediately flew
out of the building and landed in front of them. The five had no time to
set up for the teleport.

"Wonderful!" Tomoe praised Mistress Nine's power of darkness.

"Infinity Academy is now protected by the energy of darkness, and has
become the Omega Zone. No intruder will ever be able to enter. Now is
the time to reach for the chalice." Mistress Nine extended her right
arm, which started to glow with a dark light. Where her fingertips
extended, dimensional ripples appeared, and the hand reached through the
dimensional rift like a hand submerging into water.

As the five Soldiers struggled, Sailormoon once again destroyed all
the Daimons in the area with her Moon Spiral Heart Attack. As they hurried
to set up for the teleport, a dimensional distortion suddenly appeared
behind Sailormoon, and Mistress Nine's hand gripped around Sailormoon's
neck just as she turned to see the arm. The arm tried to pull Sailormoon
through the portal. The other four immediately ran forward and clung onto
Sailormoon to stop her from being dragged in by the arm, but a new wave of
Daimons immediately attacked them. The four Soldiers lost their grip,
falling back, and Sailormoon disappeared through the dimensional hole. All
the Daimons suddenly retreated and fused themselves with the barrier around
the Tower.

"I can't believe this is happening..." Mars said while looking at the
barrier with all the Daimons on it.

"Without Sailormoon, we can't teleport..." Mercury said with a somewhat
despairing voice.

"What should we do then?" Jupiter asked.

As the helicopter came near the school tower, Uranus saw the barrier
around the tower. "What is that?"

"It doesn't look like a typical barrier," Neptune observed.

"Maybe we can enter from the opening." Uranus saw the star-shaped
opening on top of the barrier. But as the helicopter came closer to the
tower, the thousands of Daimons on the barrier sensed the intruders.
Hundreds of them immediately flew towards the helicopter and attacked. The
helicopter, engulfed by Daimons, lost control and exploded.

Uranus and Neptune found themselves in the middle of a frozen
explosion. All the shattering, smoke, and flame remained perfectly
still. They looked around and saw Pluto suspended in mid-air outside
the helicopter, with light radiating from the Garnet Rod.

"Pluto?" Neptune's voice echoed in the frozen time field.

"What have you done?" Uranus asked.

"I have stopped time. You must take this opportunity and escape now", Pluto
urged the two.

"I never knew you had this kind of power!"

"No. As the Guardian of Time this is the most forbidden act for me."

"The most forbidden...?" Uranus tried to understand the meaning behind
those words.

"What's going to happen to you?" Neptune asked.

"If you ever find the true Messiah..." Not answering Uranus' question,
Pluto looked at them with warmth in her eyes, and spoke softly.

"The true Messiah...?" Neptune asked.

Uranus and Neptune were teleported inside the barrier, and the
helicopter exploded.

"That is because of the pure heart from that sacrifice by the one called
Chibiusa." Mistress Nine replied.

"That pure heart...don't you use it for evil things..." The words came out
of Mistress Nine's mouth with a weak and shaky voice. She then quickly sat
up straight with a tense expression on her face.

"What is the matter?" Tomoe looked asked casually, in a light tone
of voice.

"Nothing!" Mistress Nine replied in frustration. She seemed tired and
uncomfortable, and covered part of her face with her hand. Mistress Nine
then transformed into the appearance of the original Hotaru and hovered off
the throne. "I will now go and recover the chalice, while you go and
eliminate the two intruding Sailor Soldiers."

"I will?"

"Just use the puppets you created. Now, go! Daimon Germatos"

"Yes."

The barrier around the school building started to expand outwards.
Mercury made more analyses on it with her computer.

"The energy level of the barrier is rising steadily."

"I can't believe we can't even get in!" Jupiter said.

"Sailormoon..." Venus said with a worried voice.

"The only thing the four of us can do, is try to stop that barrier
from expanding any more." Mercury concluded.

"Have faith in Sailormoon, and we'll do what we can." Mars said.

>From 4 major roads around the enemy base, the Sailor Soldiers kneeled
and set up their own perimeter barrier to stop the barrier around
the Infinity Academy building from expanding.

Sailormoon woke up and found herself enveloped by darkness. Mistress
Nine's hand strangled her while pulling her through the rift, and that
caused her to cough a couple of times after she woke up. She looked
around and saw Hotaru lying unconscious, not far away.

As Uranus and Neptune ran along a dim corridor, they saw what appeared
to be deflated body suits hanging along both the walls on each side.

"What are these?" Uranus exclaimed, looking at the suits around them.

Then they saw Prof. Tomoe standing in the middle of the corridor.
"These, are the vessels I created."

"You two should know it's against school regulations to come into this
area," Tomoe said with the voice of a teacher.

"It was your very own words which said 'everyone should persist with
their own sense of justice', Mr. Principle." Uranus replied.

"It's such a pity," a distorted grin appeared on Tomoe's face. "We
really wanted excellent students like you two to become vessels,
like this man here by the name of Tomoe Soichi!"

The professor began to laugh maniacally. A large, red shadow emerged out
of Tomoe's body and turned into a Daimon. Tomoe fell unconscious as soon
as the Daimon left him. Uranus immediately attacked the Daimon with World
Shaking, and the Daimon exploded into countless tiny pieces. The tiny
pieces of the Daimon fell onto the floor, then each piece quickly moved to
a bodysuit along the walls. The suits were immediately inflated, and they
started surrounding the two Soldiers, all the while laughing maniacally.
Uranus and Neptune fought with punches and kicks, but didn't appear to be
inflicting any damage on the puppets. The puppets seemed to be only filled
with air, stretching their arms in unimaginable ways. Eventually, both
Uranus and Neptune were caught by the arms of the puppets, and they fell to
the floor.

"The Talismans." Just when it appeared that the fight was over, both
Uranus and Neptune heard Sailor Pluto's voice. Uranus' sword and
Neptune's mirror appeared in front of them and destroyed the puppet
arms around them. They reached for the talismans. Standing back to
back, Uranus guarded Neptune's back with the sword while Neptune held
up her mirror in front of the puppets. As Neptune turned around and
scanned the puppets with the mirror, all except one puppet seen by the
mirror immediately turned into translucent shadows. Uranus unsheathed the
sword, dashed forward and buried the glowing blade deep into the Daimon's
single eye. Germatos laughed maniacally one last time as its body
stretched, distorted, and finally exploded into nothing.

"I thought I heard Pluto's voice." Uranus picked up her short sword
from the floor and sheathed it, then the two continued running.
"Deathbusters...they're tougher than I expected," Uranus said
as they ran. "But we won't lose." Neptune replied.

Sailormoon went over to Hotaru and helped her sit up.

"Hotaru..." Professor Tomoe's called the name of his daughter while
still lying unconscious on the floor.

"The chalice..." Hotaru said with a weak voice.

"What about the chalice?"

"I heard them say that they would all be destroyed if this room is
illuminated by Super Sailormoon's chalice. We have to hurry...they
will be here soon."

Sailormoon stood up, and looked around for a second. "It's good that
you weren't hurt." She said with a smile.

Sailormoon looked at Hotaru and did not say a thing. After a couple
of second, a puzzled look appeared on Hotaru's face.

"Hotaru...how did you know I was Tsukino Usagi?"

Hotaru looked surprised, then looked down and started a light,
but evil smile.

"You are not Hotaru!"

"Yes I am, but only the body," Hotaru said with a sinister laugh.

"What happened to Hotaru?"

"I absorbed her." Hotaru stood up, then rose off the floor. She then
transformed back to Mistress Nine. "I am Mistress Nine, an alien
life form from the Tau System who is taking possession of Hotaru's body."

A door behind Sailormoon suddenly opened. Sailormoon turned around
and saw Uranus and Neptune. They had finally found their way to the
Messiah of Silence. "We have finally found you!" Uranus said.

"For the future of this world, we will destroy you." Neptune added.

"Wait! Uranus! Neptune!"

Mistress Nine turned around, and the darkness beyond her parted like
drapes. Behind the darkness, was the array of machines and the transparent
dome containing small cosmos and nebulas. "My Master, Pharaoh Ninety.
Please wait just a little longer." The Messiah of Darkness then
looked back at Sailormoon, Uranus, and Neptune with a light laughter.